Many housewives were convinced by their bitter experience: cucumbers are capricious vegetables. If canned foods are kept warm, they often explode. Find a recipe for pickled cucumbers, closing on which the vegetables for the winter, you can sleep peacefully, many dream. Argued that such a variant of the workpiece exists - these are cucumbers in Volgograd, the recipe of which was published in one of the Soviet journals addressed to women. By sharing the find with her friends, the housewives made their adjustments to the recipe, given the experience of home canning. As a result, several similar, but not identical ways of marinating cucumbers in Volgograd for the winter turned out to be. Which one is more convenient depends solely on the preferences of the chef.
Cooking Features
The marinade recipe for cucumbers in Volgograd almost never undergo serious changes, but the other ingredients are different for all housewives. The technology of cooking “Volgograd” cucumbers can also be different. But if you want to cook canned food that is at risk of exploding to a minimum degree, you need to know and take into account a few points.
- Cleanliness is the main requirement for canning, especially when it comes to cucumbers. Do not be lazy to wash the vegetables using a sponge and special detergents, for example, intended for washing children's dishes, and then soak for a couple of hours in ice water and rinse again. Greens and spices are also thoroughly washed, then allowed to dry. All dishes used for cooking pickled cucumbers, you need to wash well and pour over boiling water. Banks for cucumbers and lids suitable for them must be sterilized. Banks are sterilized over steam or in the oven, the lids are boiled. Plastic lids for canning cucumbers are not suitable, we need metal ones to ensure tightness.
- Cucumbers in Volgograd do not close with greens, although it is used to make marinade. After boiling the greens for 2-3 minutes, sometimes 5 minutes, it is removed from the marinade and discarded. It is believed that this has a positive effect on the safety of the workpiece.
- Cucumbers, the recipe of which is considered to be Volgograd, are prepared without sterilizing snacks in cans. So that they do not explode, they must be heated before pouring marinade, the bay with clean boiling water and wrapped.
- After the completion of the canning, the cucumber banks in Volgograd are turned over and covered with a blanket, which results in the effect of a steam bath. Cooling in such conditions, canned food continues to be sterilized, which has a positive effect on their resistance to adverse storage conditions.
Another secret of the “inexplosive danger” of cucumbers marinated in Volgograd lies in a fairly high concentration of salt, sugar and acetic acid. Reducing the amount of these ingredients in the marinade is undesirable, but if you want to make a snack a little less salty, then salt and sugar decrease proportionally, but in this case you will have to add a little more vinegar. And you can not exclude from the composition of the pepper.
The classic recipe for cucumbers in Volgograd
Composition (6 liters):
- cucumbers - 4 kg;
- water - 3 l;
- acetic essence - 30 ml;
- salt - 150 g;
- sugar - 150 g;
- fresh parsley - 50 g;
- fresh dill - 50 g;
- Bulgarian pepper - 0, 2 kg;
- garlic - 6 cloves;
- bay leaf - 2 pcs .;
- black pepper peas - 8 pcs.
Method of preparation:
- Wash cucumbers thoroughly, cut off their tips. Fold the vegetables in an enamelled bucket, fill with boiling water. Cover the bucket with a lid, wrap it in a blanket. Leave for 2-3 hours.
- Wash greens, tie a thread, pour boiling water.
- Wash the spices.
- Sterilize the jars, put the spices in them.
- Cut the garlic into plates, spread it over the jars.
- Boil water, dissolve sugar and salt in it, add greens. Boil for 5 minutes, remove the herbs from the brine.
- Pour in vinegar essence. When the liquid boils again, remove the pan from the heat.
- Spread the cucumbers on the banks. Put a piece of bell pepper in each jar. On a 3-liter jar usually half of the fruit is enough. Pre-pepper should be washed, cleaned of seeds, scalded with boiling water.
- Boil the lid.
- Fill the cucumbers with hot marinade. Roll up.
- Turn the jars with cucumbers, cover with a blanket, leave to cool completely.
In the recipe of the Soviet times proportions were given for 10 liters of marinade, it would be enough for 7-10 three-liter cans. The number of ingredients in the above recipe is proportionally reduced, since not all modern housewives can preserve cucumbers in such a volume.
Modern recipe for cucumbers in Volgograd
Composition (3 liters):
- cucumbers - 2 kg;
- water - 1, 5 l;
- table vinegar - 150 ml;
- sugar - 75 g;
- salt - 75 g;
- fresh greens, leaves of fruit trees - to taste;
- bay leaf - 1 pc .;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- Bulgarian pepper - 100 g.
Method of preparation:
- Cucumbers, washed, soak for 2 hours in ice water. Wash, cut the ends of the fruit. Let the vegetables dry.
- Wash and dry the spices, greens. Free the Bulgarian pepper from the seeds, coarsely chop.
- Sterilize the jars, boil suitable lids.
- Spread garlic, pepper, laurel leaves in cans.
- Fill the jars with cucumbers.
- Boil water, pour cucumbers. Cover the jars with lids. Wrap a towel. Wait 20-30 minutes.
- Drain water from cans, pour vinegar into them.
- Boil water, put salt, sugar, fruit leaves, greens in it. Boil for 2-3 minutes, strain.
- Pour marinade over cucumbers, roll up.
- Turning the jars, wrap them with a blanket and leave to cool until morning.
Cooking cucumbers for this recipe will be easier than the prescription of the Soviet times, but the risk that the blanks “explode” will still be a little higher.
Cucumbers in Volgograd with hot pepper
Composition (3 liters):
- cucumbers - 2 kg;
- water - 1, 5 l;
- salt - 60 g;
- sugar - 60 g;
- table vinegar - 120 ml;
- chilli pepper - 1 pc.
Method of preparation:
- Spread clean cucumbers on sterilized jars. At the bottom of each place a ring of hot peppers. In a three-liter jar, pepper can be put whole.
- Fill the vegetables with boiling water, after half an hour drain the liquid.
- Cook the marinade with the amount of sugar, salt, water and vinegar indicated in the recipe.
- Fill the cucumbers with boiling marinade, cork.
- Leave to cool upside down under a blanket.
Despite the simplicity of the recipe, made on it cucumbers are well. This can be associated with the presence in the composition of the billet pepper.
Cucumbers in Volgograd marinated according to a special technology, the composition of the snack contains Bulgarian or hot peppers. All this allows you to cook canned food that explode less often than made according to many other recipes.
